Today's News: Our Take - Boy Meets World Spin-Off Casts the New Shawn!

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Jan 31, 2013 at 12:01 AMJan 31, 2013 at 4:45 AM

Disney Channel's Boy Meets World spin-off has cast the new Shawn! No, we don't mean that someone else is replacing Rider Strong in his longtime role (like anyone could rival his perfectly coifed locks?!), but there is a new BFF ...

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###less###p(((great)))###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/News/Girl-Meets-World-Sabrina-Carpenter-1060199.aspx?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))###less###/a(((great)))###less###p(((great)))Disney Channel's ###less###em(((great)))###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/boy-meets-world/100070?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))Boy Meets World###less###/a(((great)))###less###/em(((great))) spin-off has cast the new Shawn! No, we don't mean that someone else is replacing ###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/rider-strong/171835?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))Rider Strong###less###/a(((great))) in his longtime role (like anyone could rival his perfectly coifed locks?!), but there is a new BFF in the house!###less###/p(((great)))###less###p(((great)))###less###em(((great)))Girl Meets World###less###/em(((great))) has tapped ###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/sabrina-carpenter/496580?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))Sabrina Carpenter###less###/a(((great))) to play Maya Fox, the best friend of Cory and Topanga's daughter, Riley, ###less###a href="http://tvline.com/2013/01/31/girl-meets-world-cast-sabrina-carpenter/" target="_blank"(((great)))TVLine###less###/a(((great))) reports. Carpenter impressed Disney exes when she appeared in the failed Disney XD pilot ###less###em(((great)))###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/gulliver-quinn/394073?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))Gulliver Quinn###less###/a(((great)))###less###/em(((great))), and she also voices a princess on the Disney Junior animated hit ###less###em(((great)))###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/sofia-the-first/466942?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))Sofia the First###less###/a(((great)))###less###/em(((great))).###less###/p(((great)))###less###p(((great)))###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/photogallery/shows-reunite-1056586?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))Check out other shows that should reunite###less###/a(((great)))###less###/p(((great)))###less###p(((great)))Carpenter will next appear in Fox's upcoming comedy ###less###em(((great)))###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-goodwin-games/375384?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))The Goodwin Games###less###/a(((great)))###less###/em(((great))) as the tween version of ###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/becki-newton/222363?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs"(((great)))Becki Newton###less###/a(((great)))'s character. Her casting comes days after ###less###a href="http://www.tvguide.com/news/boy-meets-world-spin-off-casts-daughter-1060009.aspx?rss=keywords&partnerid=gatehouse&profileid=celebs" target="_blank"(((great)))Rowan Blanchard won the coveted role of Riley Matthews.###less###/a(((great)))###less###/p(((great)))###less###p(((great)))Production on###less###em(((great))) Girl Meets World ###less###/em(((great)))is set to begin next month. If the pilot is picked up to series by Disney Channel, it would debut sometime during the 2013-2014 schedule.###less###/p(((great)))###less###/br(((great)))